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Amazon begins deploying its Rivian electric delivery vehicles

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Amazon has begun deploying its custom electric delivery vehicles from Rivian for package delivery, with the electric vehicles hitting the road in Baltimore, Chicago, Dallas, Kansas City, Nashville, Phoenix, San Diego, Seattle, and St. Louis, among other cities.

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Tesla supplier Panasonic to boost productivity before adding an EV plant

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He also added that the human resources requirement of adding additional plants meant it is, in general, preferable to have fewer production locations, rather than more. location at Tesla’s Gigafactory in Nevada, and the manufacturer is building a second site in Kansas. Currently, Panasonic has a U.S.

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Panasonic puts productivity boost ahead of new EV plant in US – ET Auto

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The battery unit, Panasonic Energy , had previously said it aimed to decide on building the factory by the end of March. Panasonic Energy has a plant in Nevada and has broken ground on a second one in Kansas. The unit expects the Kansas plant to take its annual auto battery capacity to 80 gigawatt hours (GWh) a year.

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NSF announces $55M toward national research priorities; intersection of food, energy and water systems

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The National Science Foundation (NSF) has made 11 awards totaling $55 million aimed at building research capacity to develop new innovations at the intersection of food, energy and water systems and to address fundamental questions about the brain. University of Kansas Center for Research Inc. Edward Peltier.

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ORNL assessment finds >65 GW of untapped hydropower in US rivers and streams

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Kansas, Missouri, Pennsylvania and Wyoming led the rest of the country in new stream-reach hydropower potential. The US Department of Energy (DOE) tasked ORNL with evaluating the new stream-reach development resource potential of more than 3 million US streams. Source: ORNL NSD. Click to enlarge.

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SwRI to demonstrate use of electric vehicles as part of emergency power microgrid under US Army SPIDERS program

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The Fort Carson team, led by Kansas City, Mo.-based electrical power and. consumption at military. installations more efficiently, thus reducing petroleum. demand, carbon emissions, and. transportation costs. Smart Power Infrastructure. Demonstration for Energy Reliability. and Security (SPIDERS) (May 2012 presentation).

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CleanFUEL USA Secures $12.9 Million from US DOE for 100+ Propane Refueling Stations

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The program will roll out in two phases and focus on cities that have a presence of existing and potential autogas fleets, autogas fuel availability as well as available staff and resources from the Propane Education & Research Council (PERC).

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